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For the modern mind, the book’s cultural setting seems far removed from the twenty-first century. Proverbs puts a high priority on tradition and age, while the modern mind prizes change and youth. For Christians, Proverbs seems irrelevant. For the translator, Proverbs defies translations. In the second part of his two-volume commentary, Waltke confronts these exegetical and interpretive...

her loins with strength and strengthens her arms for the task” (v. 17).135 The itemization of her deeds in the body of the poem defines specifically what is meant by ḥayil. The rhetorical question who (mi, see 30:4, 9) can find (yimsaʾ, see 3:13) aims to awaken within the audience the desire to find such a wife or to be like her. The parallel verset B implies a relative, not absolute, negative answer, “Almost no one” (cf. Ps. 90:11; Isa. 53:1; Hos. 14:9 [10]).136 It also clarifies the meaning of
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